Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in prope… - Joseph Addison

Let Caesar have the world, if Marcia’s mine.

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shews none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon.